Show BRANDS RALEIGH A LILY WHITE Council Adopts Committee Re Report Report Report port Exonerating Street j Supervisor Supe visor FERNSTROM DEFENDS HIM TWO AMERICAN MEMBERS AVOID GOING ON RECORD Jake Raleigh is a Lily Llly White The city council so decided last evening evenin by a vote of 9 to 3 and the street super supervisor visor Isor Is exonerated The vote was as follows For Raleigh Cowburn Fernstrom Fer Ferr rj r Holly Holley halt Hall Martin MarUn Murdoch ODon ODonnell ODonnell nell and Ue all Against Raleigh Black and andWood Wood W Excused Hodgson Stewart and President President dent Davis After tile the Raleigh investigation tion the committee of the tho whole reported to the council that th t the charges brought by b Councilman C Wood had not bet bel a 1 sustained This report came Caine up U a week ago ao and consideration was waa post poat postponed postponed until last evening If it had not been for or the Democratic members mE of the council coun lI Raleigh would have been ousted from office The Americans Americana were hopelessly divided as asis asIs asIs is shown by b the vote Ferry Martin ODonnell and voted for Raleigh while Wood and Black voted against him Hodgson Hodgon Davis and Stew Stewart Stewart Stewart art were excused because they had not been present at the investigation al dl although though Martin dartin could have used the same as aa he was nas not there either cither This disposition among the Americans to avoid the recording of their votes gave gavet tuli t ul for lor considerable comment and It sas aa asserted that the two that did dill not vote ote had a bad case of what is called i Id M fet Postponement Voted Down When Ahen the report of the committee con of the whole was read Ferry Forry moved its adoption Stewart wanted the matter postponed indefinitely but was downed uy tho the opposition Stewart stated that the theft thet of the poll tax books from the street supervisors office was occasion enough for a post postponement postponement postponement of at least two weeks did not agree with him saying that the theft had nothing to do with the investigation n Councilman Fernstrom made a strong speech in support of Raleigh He Inti r that some of those who had pre preferred the charges had stolen the poll tax books to make their case strong The charges against Raleigh he said were based on hearsay misapprehension and md straight out and out lying Councilman Hall the Democratic representative representative representative from the Fourth ward declared that the charges had not been proved and that ho intended to vote to vindicate Ra Ba Raleigh Bag leigh g Black said Raid that he believed Raleigh guilty of incompetency and neglect of duty but not of grafting Wood made a along long speech against the tho street super superintendent but did not seem to make any impression The taking of the vote was without In Ident |